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A German graphic-novel adaptation of Irène Némirovsky’s posthumously published novel, this single-issue comic from Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart (2015) translates the harrowing story of life under the Nazi occupation of France into a visual medium. The project is most closely associated with artist and adapter Sébastien Vassant, whose stark, expressive artwork captures the novel’s intimate, tragic human drama. It matters as a notable European effort to bring a major work of 20th-century literature—unfinished due to the author’s death in Auschwitz—to a new audience through comics.